Staten Island Advance Recipes

Healthy eating, ethnic cooking & more

• Favorite holiday foods get a healthy makeover
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As luscious as they are, America's favorite holiday foods could use with a little updating to reduce some of the fat, sodium and calories that would make them slightly more nutritious.

• Perfect mashed potatoes
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As luscious as they are, America's favorite holiday foods are never going to win an award for being low in fat and calories.

• Save money this holiday season by making a few edible gifts at home
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- One way to save money this holiday season is to make a few edible gifts at home rather than make the round of stores flashing your credit card.

• Turning leftover turkey into temptation on a plate
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It's been said "The right recipes can turn leftover turkey into temptation on a plate." With that thought in mind, let's get you started thinking about something beyond the "same ol'" turkey sandwich.

• Sharing a family-style dinner
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The holidays are all about making concessions, about resurrecting long-time traditions while satisfying everyone's palate with familiar seasonal foods. Part of the scheme often means contemporizing a favorite family side dish by giving it a new twist.

• Side dishes an important part of the Thanksgiving meal
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- No holiday is so consistently celebrated across America as Thanksgiving Day. Sure, there are festive parades, football games to watch and a chance to catch up with people you possibly haven't seen in months. But basically, the day focuses on family and food -- classic dishes recalled from childhood, flavors linked with festive times in the past and memories of those who once shared the table with us.

• Traditional holiday sides are given new life with these recipes
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Tired of topping the Thanksgiving dinner sweet potatoes with the same old marshmallows?

• Unique food and juice combinations create lively beverages
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- There's something about the last of the season's produce harvest that makes people think about creative ways to concoct unique food and juice combinations destined to become lively beverage blends.

• Festive dessert demonstrated for holiday dinner
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Perfectionist that she is, Carol Frazzetta took time to admonish her baking class students as they prepared to make their first Apple Strudel.

• Getting a head start on the holidays
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- Anxious to get a head start on planning your Thanksgiving Day menu?

• Logic behind 'shaken not stirred'
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- A nice treat for James Bond fans earlier this month was the arrival of his newest film, "Quantum of Solace," in a score of New York area theaters.

• Cookbook authors share their memory bank of flavors
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- "Most cooks have a memory bank of flavors," said cookbook author Marilynn Brass, who with her sister Sheila recently produced "Heirloom Cooking With the Brass Sisters."

• Drinks to celebrate the end of election campaigns
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- How long were those election campaigns? They certainly stirred up interest among voters.

• Today's menu choices can be based on taste appeal or political views
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The long, drawn-out election campaigns are finally over. If any of your preferred candidates -- in local or national races -- were on the winning end in yesterday's tally of votes, however, you still have reason to celebrate.